Animals

07/16/2012

Shark tourism has been popular for a while now, but maybe it's time for tourists to stop looking to be entertained by creatures that are way out of our league. This weekend another shark claimed a human life off the coast of Western Australia, the fifth fatality in merely 10 months. The movie-like details of surfer Ben Linden's death, witnessed by a nearby jet-skiing friend, has oceanic experts wondering if shark behavior is changing for...
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05/02/2012

One of my favorite camera photos: the happiest horses in Hawai'i…perhaps the happiest horses in the entire world! On another note, the campaign to end carriage horses in New York City has gained a lot of attention and support this year, thankfully. Please take a look and learn why it's such a brutally outdated tourist attraction!
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03/22/2012

Goodbye, little ones.. It's World Water Day today, a day to think about how we consume water in terms of global sustainability. I consider clean water access to be directly correlated to climate change so it was sad news to learn that the copper striped blue-tailed skink (Emoia impair), a native Hawaiian lizard species, has just been declared extinct by the United States Geological Survey. "No other landscape in these United States has been more...
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01/25/2012

Even the biggest carnivores should recognize the disgusting reality of eating meat that comes from non ambulatory animals. Unfortunately, our Supreme Court has actually struck down a law in California that requires slaughterhouses to immediately euthanize animals that are crippled due to malnutrition, filthy living conditions, and disease. Meat from an animal that is too sick to even stand up on its own?…Sounds tasty and healthy...(gag). Apparently the existing law was preempted by The Federal...
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01/23/2012

Not being ignorant is the true luxury in life. I can't believe how many first world citizens are so pathetically blind when it comes to something so heinous like wearing fur in 2012. While one may think that worldwide success, experience, and millions of dollars would afford some folks the knowledge that animal fur goods are hardly something to brag about, obviously this is not the case. Take a look at what these parochial heads...
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01/05/2012

[Photo by Eastsider LA] While driving by the future PETA headquarters in Echo Park yesterday, I remembered reading about singer Janet Jackson's upcoming fur line with Blackglama. I can't be alone in thinking that this is absolutely the most awkwardly offensive time for anybody to start a fur line, even for somebody from music royalty…don't get me wrong, I love her music and I remember her as very friendly when I met her at an...
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10/31/2011

Unlike what lots of people say about dogs and clothes, Muki has always loved wearing outfits! He has a pretty big wardrobe, even for a Yorkie. This Winnie the Pooh outfit is straight from my favorite dog clothing boutique in Tokyo! If you want to see some pretty cool photos of Halloween around the world, check out this slideshow! Happy Halloween!
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09/26/2011

I've always thought it was pretty hypocritical that so many people who are against the wearing of animal fur often have their feet snug inside leather shoes, their money in their leather wallets and bags, while filling their stomachs with steak and chicken. If you're so against fur, how can you seriously be participating in all that other stuff that comes from animals? The City of West Hollywood recently banned the sale of fur, which...
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05/27/2011

Online Dérive: Ai Weiwei/China: To put it bluntly, the weak world of art has hardly done a thing about Ai Weiwei's detention. Migration: "If rich countries were to admit enough migrants from poor countries to expand their own labour forces by a mere 3%, the world would be richer, according to one estimate, by $356 billion a year." Tech: Swedish FM Carl Bildt's tweet to his counterpart in Bahrain has sparked a conversation on the...
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